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Mydrim

"MYDRIM (MEIDRUM), a parish, partly in the hundred of ELVET, but chiefly in the higher division of the hundred of DERLLYS, union and county of CARMARTHEN, SOUTH WALES, 8 miles (W.) from Carmarthen; containing 1110 inhabitants. This parish . . . contains by admeasurement about 6000 acres of tolerably good land, easily convertible into arable or pasture, being sometimes under corn, and at others under grass; the produce is chiefly wheat, oats, and barley; there is not much timber, but what there is consists mostly of oak and ash. The surrounding scenery is pleasingly diversified, being enlivened by the course of the rivers which flow through the parish . . . Coal has been supposed to exist, and an attempt to procure it has been made with good prospects of success. A fair is held on March 12th. . . The church, dedicated to St. David, is an ancient edifice of Norman architecture . . . There are places of worship for Baptists and Calvinistic Methodists . . ." [From A Topographical Dictionary of Wales (S. Lewis, 1844).]

Some church and chapel data from The Religious census of 1851 : A Calendar of the returns relating to Wales, Vol 1, South Wales. Ed. by I.G Jones, & D. Williams. UWP, Cardiff, 1976. The names are those of the informants

Dyfed FHS have photographs and data relating to various churches and chapels on their site

Parish registers: Christenings (1653-1994), Marriages (1653-1979) and Burials (1653-1988) are at the Carmarthenshire Record Office.

Copy ts PR index CB (1813-75) M (1654-1875) at NLW and Carm.RO

Bishops' Transcripts, covering the period (1671-2, 1675-8, 1681, 1683-7, 1690-1, 1693-5, 1698-1700, 1703, 1705, 1708-9, 1715-18, 1721, 1724-96, 1803-57) are at the National Library of Wales, and have been microfilmed by the LDS.

An Index to Christenings (1813-1875), Marriages (1654-1875) and Burials (1813-1875) is available on microfiche from Dyfed FHS.

The Religious census of 1851 : A Calendar of the returns relating to Wales, Vol 1, South Wales., byJones, I.G. & Williams, D. UWP, Cardiff, 1976. These statistics for this parish are extracted from this book which in turn got them from the 1851 census itself;

Carter Knuth, Jill. The relationship between Theophilus Thomas Rees and the Rev. Theophilus Rees. The former from Meidrim parish, emigrated in 1796 to the USA , ended up in Granville County, the latter also emigrated from Wales to Baltimore in 1796 dying a few months later. Dyfed FHS journal 5/6, April 1996, p 239-242.

Historical Geography

You can see the administrative areas in which Mydrim has been placed at times in the past.
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Lloyd, Sir John E., (Ed.). A History of Carmarthenshire (2 vols.), Cardiff, London Carmarthenshire Society (1935, 1939). Extracts from this book can be accessed on some parish pages, see here for this parish.